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Fundamental questions of backbone design
- Subject: Fundamental questions of backbone design
- From: drohan at gmail.com (Dan Rohan)
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:25:33 -0700
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On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz at Janoszka.pl> wrote:
> You may always prefer peering routes local to the PoP (giving them the highest localpref). This way you will not carry so much traffic on your backbone.
Just imagine what paths would look like if everyone followed that advice. Yuck. I'd say that approach makes sense for cash and bandwidth strapped providers, but its not necessarily looking out for the best interests of your customers.